The course introduces key concerns and methods in the field of the Environmental Humanities from an interdisciplinary perspective. It provides an overview of the state of the art in the field and presents a number of key concepts and positions within the Environmental Humanities, promoting a critical and solution-oriented approach.

The course explores and problematizes the role the human plays in the long term changes we are witnessing on our planet today. It also highlights the ways in which the humanities increasingly make use of the concept of the Anthropocene to question and challenge nature-culture dichotomies as well as the presumed exceptionalism of the human.

The course engages critically with posthuman theories, asking questions such as: How to understand and engage the spaces and networks that take place between the human and the more-than-human? How do they affect our perception of environmental challenges on a global scale, our reading of history and ethics?

In what ways can research contribute to change through imagining and engaging with the environment and civic society? The course aims to facilitate ethical engagement through the use of different creative and innovative methods in order to develop creative skills and strategies to communicate one’s research.

The course “Definitions” looks at what a text is or can be, particularly in the light of three distinct media technologies: orality, the printed word and digital media. A key concept in this module will be “entextualisation”, which indicates the ways in which verbal messages – also those that are orally transmitted – can be detached from their original context and become moveable and quotable, as well as subject to transformation.

The course “Methods” deals with issues relating to philology – both as an historical phenomenon and as a current and transcultural method – in addition to archival research methods, textual criticism, and current methods of literary interpretation.

The course ”Translation” deals with the literary dimensions of translation, multilingualism and reception. There will be special emphasis on cultural and sociological aspects of translation, and on how these affect the mutability of literary texts across times and places.

The course “Texts in Transit” deals with culture- and language-specific aspects of textual enquiry, as well as “bibliomigrancy”, that is the ways in which books circulate globally, gather in libraries and acquire material presence as versions of “world literature” in discrete public spheres.

The course provides an updated overview of how critical interdisciplinary research on materiality is conducted today. This includes, alongside new materialism, posthumanism and material media research, the emerging field of research on the anthropocene. This course is open to PhD students who wish to orient themselves in the field and its current propagation, and also aims at helping the doctoral students to situate their own research.

In this course, the students explore the material and the visual as two integrated and creatively significant aspects of the lived human world. The materiality of images, as well as the visuality of material objects, are examined and problematized.

The course is an individual field study with the aim of giving deeper insight into the significance of materiality within a specific field in today’s society. The course aims to raise questions how people and the material world interact, as well as unintentional and hidden effects which materialities may have in different social and cultural contexts.

The aims of the course are for the student to identify and explore a context in which materiality is significant for their doctoral research, and to produce a publishable research article on this topic. The course takes the form of a workshop to which a pair of internationally recognised researchers will be invited as mentors and as a sounding board.

This course is offered as a part of the Doctoral School in the Humanities. The course takes place during the autumn semester 2017 and is part of the theme Corporeality in theory and practice.

The course addresses issues relating to the displacement and separation resulting from increased mobility and its consequences both in terms of social and linguistic categories and different linguistically creative approaches to resistance and diversity. Within the course, students will explore different issues through empirical analysis of data related to various language phenomena.

The course deals with a subject developing from the topics discussed in the course “Dislocations”, and covers both traditional and new (e.g. academic) diasporas, the emergence of creoles and World Englishes. Within the course, students will explore different issues through empirical analysis of data related to various language phenomena.

The Faculty’s continuous operations should include four specialisations, here referred to as themes. These themes should be broad enough to benefit doctoral students from a wide range of fields, and narrow enough to enable the participating doctoral students to engage in a substantial academic exchange with each other.